Angel Hitters Also Hittees in 7-0 Victory : Baseball: Joyner, Parker and Parrish plunked by Yankee pitchers, and Gaetti has near-miss. Joyner stays on a tear.

The number of Angels hit by Yankee pitchers Thursday equaled the number of hits Wally Joyner had for the Angels. Both three-hit feats stirred emotions and won’t be forgotten.

Lance Parrish, Dave Parker and Joyner were all struck by pitches in the Angels’ 7-0 victory over New York at Yankee Stadium, and Gary Gaetti narrowly escaped a potentially serious injury when he ducked an Eric Plunk pitch that sailed behind his head in the fifth inning. The ugly incidents almost overshadowed the seven-hit shutout pitched by Jim Abbott (3-4), the owner of a three-game winning streak for the first time since May, 1989.

“Let’s talk about Jim Abbott, guys swinging the bat; let’s talk about the baseball game,” Angel Manager Doug Rader said.

But the other, less-savory events unavoidably became topics after the Angels took two of three games from the Yankees.

Parrish’s uniform was grazed by Plunk (0-2) in the fourth, and he scored on a double by Luis Sojo to give the Angels a 4-0 lead. Plunk said only, “That’s baseball,” and Parrish managed a smile. “I got the best out of the deal,” he said.

His teammates were not as forgiving.

Joyner’s second home run in as many games had made it 5-0 when Gaetti came to bat in the fifth, after Parker had walked and stolen second standing up. Joyner was hit in the right side by Steve Farr in the eighth, with the Angels leading by their final margin.

Home plate umpire Tim Tschida warned Farr after he hit Joyner, and as required, Abbott was also warned. However, no Yankee pitcher was ejected, as Angel reliever Scott Bailes had been for hitting Randy Velarde on Monday. The Angels couldn’t help but remember that.

“Some of the things today weren’t quite kosher, so to speak,” said Parker, who was struck on the outside of his right knee by a pitch from Steve Howe in the seventh. “You may forgive, but you never forget.”

Joyner, who assumed the major league lead with 46 hits and a .380 batting average, declined to comment. He had taken a few steps toward Farr and had to be guided to first by Tschida.

“If I get started, I’d probably say something I shouldn’t,” Joyner said as he dressed hurriedly to catch the team bus to Baltimore. “I would prefer not to (comment) today, please.”

His three-for-three performance and 12-game hitting streak spoke volumes. His three-run double in the third and home run in the fifth gave him a team-leading 26 RBIs in 32 games, identical to his 32-game total in 1987. He finished with 117 RBIs that season. His only quicker start was in his rookie season in 1986, when he had 29 RBIs in his first 32 games and finished with 100.

In his streak, Joyner is hitting .479 (23 for 48) with three doubles, nine runs scored, four homers and 15 RBIs. In the nine games he has hit second in the batting order, he is 19 for 36 (.528).

“He’s swinging the bat as good as anybody I’ve ever seen swing it,” Rader said.

Parrish said Abbott pitched as well as he has seen the left-hander pitch this season. Abbott struck out six and issued no walks to earn his first complete game and first shutout since July 13, 1990, when he defeated the Blue Jays, 2-0.

“He was working the corners well, getting ahead and keeping the ball down in the strike zone,” Parrish said. “He had a good fastball, good slider and good curveball. Basically, he was in control the whole game.”

Abbott’s control of his emotions was impressive, too. Asked about the warning he received and about seeing his teammates hit by pitches, he said: “That was between ourselves and the Yankees. I’d rather not talk about it.”

The night’s events had Gaetti talking to himself when he suspected he might become a target.

“I said to myself, ‘Self, he’s either going to hit me or he’s going to throw me a breaking ball. It’s not going to do any good to look for something that might hit me,’ ” Gaetti said. “What he did, that’s not good. But I wasn’t going to start anything. I’d rather do my damage with my bat in the game and get the last laugh.”